Short Answer Questions
1. Who founded the Vikramshila University?
2. Why did Muhammad Ghazni raid the temple towns of Northern India?
3. What made the Pratiharas weak, which ultimately resulted in their decline?
4. Who was Mohammad Ghori?
5. Define the tripartite struggle.
Answers
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1. Dharmapala
2. Mahmud of Ghazni had started his invasions in India during the period when the Rajput power had declined. The two main reasons that led to the conquest of India by Mahmud Ghazni was firstly, to accumulate the vast amount of wealth that existed in India, and secondly, to spread Islam.
3. The power of the Pratiharas was apparently weakened by dynastic strife. It was further diminished as a result of a great raid from the Deccan, led by the Rastrakuta king Indra III, who about 916 sacked Kannauj. ... For about a generation longer a small Pratihara principality apparently survived in the area of Allahabad.
4. Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori, born Shihab ad-Din, also known as Muhammad of Ghor, was the Sultan of the Ghurid Empire along with his brother Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad from 1173 to 1202 and as the sole ruler from 1202 to 1206.
5. The Tripartite Struggle for control of northern India took place in the ninth century. The struggle was between the Pratihara Empire, the Pala Empire and the Rashtrakuta Empire. Part of a series on the.